Thursday, May 14, 2009

Warning Signs

You know that yarn is running your life when you're watching a documentary about Lizzie Borden, and you rush to pause the DVD for a closer look at the grisly police photo of her butchered father because it appears that the pillow under his (bleeding, disfigured) head is made of crochet.

And then you realize half an hour later that you've missed the subsequent details of the investigation and trial because you've been thinking about whether Lizzie did crochet, and whether that might explain anything, and feeling frustrated that the people who made the documentary didn't bother to find out.

104 comments:

Norie in PA
said...

Oh my Franklin -- I thought I was the only one to do stuff like that.I watched/paused Ballykissangel repeatedly for a hat and a sweater. I want you to know how very much I enjoy our little visits here on the web -- even the ones that make me burst into laughter and spill my morning coffee -- thanks for sharing

I stopped weeping over Tess' dead baby in the recent Masterpiece Theatre version of Tess of the D'urbervilles because I was so busy trying to figure out the pattern to the blanket and bonnet he wore. That's kind of sick on my part.

You know, I scrutinized the picture, too, and your entry left me with one thought: That crochet is just as relaxing/stress relieving for its practitioners as knitting is for knitters, so Lizzie's crocheting wouldn't have led her to massacre her family. I think yarn is running my life, too.

yeah, yesterday i watched Dracula starring Frank Langela; once and a half and the special features too. couldln't get enough of looking at him and the headrag his Mina was wearing. the scarf seemed to have a ribbed edge and looked like arrowhead lace.

marie in floridawhere i do suppose lizzy worked crochet because she was a lady of her time.

I know exactly what you mean. The whole time Vera Drake was "helping young girls out" with her soap and disinfectant-filled Higginson bulb syringe, all I could think about was what a cool job it would be to knit period sweaters for movies, like the ones I was seeing on the screen...

I have been known to get distracted by the knitting/crocheting in movies too.

BTW, Lizzie Borden's house is now a museum and B&B. I went there several years ago with some friends. The original furniture is still there, but I am not sure about the pillows. I bet you could make a call...

While watching a vampire movie, right at the point where the girl was about to get bitten and killed, I suddenly lost the thread of the movie when I noticed the girl was wearing a really nice cabled sweater.

I often feel that they should offer patterns from books,documentaries and movies at the end of them. My kids and Hubbie hate it when I stop and back up things to look at the yarn items. Of course when it is something they want(like Zac Brown's cabled hat in Chicken Fried video)They will spend an hour in slow motion so I can draw it.

During a special showing of "Imagine Me and You" I was enamored by the heroine's sweaters (she was in London - the yarn had to be Rowan). My friend that had invited me to it had to listen to me go nuts over the sweaters. Later I found the movie on DVD and wondered why I made all that fuss over the sweaters. It must have been the allure of the big screen showing all the stitch detail.

Oh my! When I think of how many times I've seen that photo, and never noticed the pillow . . . what's wrong with me? Now you've given me something else to obsess on in the Lizzie Borden case. (She did it, of course. But she had a great lawyer who asked the jury whether they believed it possible for a respectable, upstanding daughter to kill her parents.)

In the later seasons of the Gilmore Girls there were several really interesting man sweaters that Sookie St. James’s boyfriend, later husband, Jackson Belleville (real name Jackson Douglas) wore – I had to stop the DVDs more than once to sketch these sweaters.

Whew! I am so glad it turns out I am not related to her. One of my forbearer's sister's married her father or grandfather something, so I guess she was my Nth cousin umpteen times removed. Maybe they let her off because she couldn't possibly both crochet and wield an axe?

In _Whale Rider_ I kept wondering where all the great sweaters came from. New Zealand, cold, sheep, wonderful sweaters, and NO ONE was knitting?

Yep, I had to watch it more than once to catch everything. (Fortunately, it was worth it, and it wasn't gory in the least.)

Shabana Azmi often knits and crochets in Bollywood movies, I rarely see sweaters on people in them. But don't ask how many pictures of knit hats and marvels of sari, screen, and architectural designs I have paused movies to take pictures of. Oh, my....

It seems clear to me that if Lizzie did indeed make the pillow on the couch, she couldn't possibily have committed the murders. If she had, she would have moved her work so that it didn't get ruined with bloodstains...

There is a gorgeous shawl in "Stardust" that I freeze framed for almost as long as the rest of the movie. It is in an early scene in the dry goods shop, white and natural colored wool with scallops *swoon*

Several years ago, back when I had a tv and a vcr (told you it was several years ago), I spent probably an hour pressing rewind, play, and going frame by frame as I charted out the cable pattern on the sweater Erica Glasener was wearing on an episode of A Gardener's Diary. I still have the chart, though I never did make a sweater from it. Someday!

A couple weeks ago I paused a documentary to check out someone's handknit sweater. (It was a yoked sweater, in a larger gauge.) My nose was about touching the TV screen when my husband caught me at it.

He told me I'd go blind. As I recall it's not knitting that does that.

Anyway, if you're developing some... knitting... issue... well, you've got a lot of company. We're all in the handbasket with you.

If that was in fact Lizzie's work, it must have had a hell of a mistake in it (that she found after binding off) for her to allow someone to bleed all over it. Either that or she used Red Heart & she figured she could just bleach out the stains.

We've never met, but your twinks/bears analogy is sweeping Palm Springs. Or maybe we have: I used to teach at that ivy-covered institution you mentioned as having been the scene of your induction into knitting. Anyway, you're a stitch! (you should pardon . . . etc.)

I have to say that I didn't pause for Lizzie's documentary, but have been known to freeze frame and screen capture on occasion. This particular affliction started back with quilts. There is a Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy flick that I have a copy of solely for a scene that has a bunch of quilts in it I want to look at more closely. I have a quilt that is based on one I saw in Anne of Green Gables.

Right now I have screen captures of several handknits from Boys Over Flowers - although why 2 poor girls working in a porridge shop are wearing such great handknits is a mystery - AND I have saved the DVD of Men With Brooms (mind out of gutter people, it's a Canadian comedy about curling) because there are 2 sweaters in there I am drooling over.

Oh... I do that all the time...drove my ex crazy (maybe that is why he is my ex???) anyway, I am not familiar with the movie, so I can't really say if she did or not... all I know there is no such a thing as a crochet-machine, so someone must have done it :-))

I'm back, after having done a bit of research, none of which revealed any good photos of other crafts in the Borden house. But I did find this blog which is full of tidbits and architectural details of the Bordens' house and those of the neighbors.http://sanctaflora.wordpress.com/

True crime appreciators will find this very interesting. Perhaps Franklin will knit us a murder sweater in honor of Lizzie?

Once once of my friends got up and left during the Shipping News because I was going 'I think that's brioche stitch. Or maybe it's just a twisted rib. Anyway, they all have the same jumpers - I wonder who knti them?'

Once once of my friends got up and left during the Shipping News because I was going 'I think that's brioche stitch. Or maybe it's just a twisted rib. Anyway, they all have the same jumpers - I wonder who knit them?'

They just up and left me.... to be fair, that WAS after we'd gone through the same thing for Sweeney Todd.

I must be blind, I see no bloodstains, there for he was killed elsewhere, cleaned up,and placed on the couch by someone who didn't give a @*& about the pillow and all that handwork. There for, she did not do it! She was Framed!

Hey, there, Franklin! My husband and I are in Chicago for a short weekend. After touring the Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science & Industry (there were a few knits I wish they'd have let me photograph!) and visiting the Chicago Art Institute, we walked over to Loopy Yarns where I indulged in four (ack!) skeins of yarn that will each become socks. I wasn't sure whether we'd see you there, but I wanted to give you a shout out nonetheless. It's a beautiful city!

I have long been interested in Lizzie. I am sure if you contact the folks who run the B&B out of the Borden home, they'll be able to give you more information regarding Lizzie & crochet (and possibly of the pillow in question).

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